Abstract
With its ability to represent variable sized trees in fixed width patterns, RAAM is a bridge between connectionist and symbolic systems. In the past, due to limitations in our understanding, its development plateaued. By examining RAAM from a dynamical systems perspective, we overcome most of the problems that previously plagued it. In fact, using a dynamical systems analysis we can no w prove that not only is RAAM capable of generating parts of a context free language (anbn) but is capable of expressing the whole language.